[caption id="attachment_65602" align="alignnone" width=""]Mayflower II[/caption]The Sea is a Magic Carpet was the title of the very first book written...
Looking back on it, the voyage seemed altogether improbable. The ship was an 1,100DWT coaster, registered for some strange reason in Singapore.
[caption id="attachment_64970" align="alignnone" width=""]Tokyo Express[/caption]I actually wanted to be a pilot – just like my grandfather, who had...
I had a wrathful email the other day, not because of anything I wrote, but from a maritime college lecturer deploring the treatment of a group of engineer...
I know it is a very long time ago and old sailors are supposed to retain only the best memories, but I used to really look forward to arriving at a...
I was talking to some cadets attending a Nautical Institute conference the other day. They seemed exceptionally bright, had plenty of intelligent things...
In 2019, it is confidently announced, the giant Japanese shipping company NYK will despatch one of its ships across the Pacific under “remote control”....
[caption id="attachment_58986" align="alignnone" width=""]Cruden simulator in operation[/caption]Last year I was fortunate to attend the excellent High...
The other day, we listened to a broadcast of several thousand Italians shouting their anger at a public meeting in Venice. The clue is in the location,...
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